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title: "Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana"  
description: "Here is the list of Lesser-known yet very interesting facts from the Ramayana. How many do you know about?"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-15  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1573/lesser-known-facts-about-ramayana  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Ramayana", "Ramayan", "Lord Rama", "Ramayan Facts", "Ramayana facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana

![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/5c991733-93dc-4e6d-b91c-0c764b789396.jpeg) ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/53589f25-cce7-47f8-b656-05475f411b10.jpeg) There are hundreds of versions of Ramayana apart from the original version from Valmiki, with very different narratives ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/53ef11d7-3fa1-44b4-9b17-4660ffa7bd27.jpeg) In the original version of Valmiki’s Ramayana, Lord Rama was not a god, the story was central to Sita ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/8cfc7479-3119-4531-a439-0605c03e631d.jpeg) Lakshman didn’t sleep at all during the 14 years of exile in an attempt to guard Rama and Sita ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/36bd8a6c-4c80-4ee2-9892-0dcfb42d48c1.jpeg) Hanuman covered himself with sindoor to keep Lord Rama safe thus the name Bajrangi ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/a31ab709-d199-4cdf-8fff-6e520abc9cdf.jpeg) Sita managed to lift the Lord Shiva’s bow during her childhood,that’s why King Janak put the condition of breaking the bow at Sita’s Swayamvar ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/1781f4f5-2633-41f8-9949-aa166a33a859.jpeg) Nandi, the bull, had cursed Ravan that monkeys will become a cause of your destruction ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/400f85d7-03c0-44eb-9366-6bba4288b160.jpeg) The white stripes on a squirrel’s body are given by Lord Rama ![Lesser Known Facts About Ramayana](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/277d8de0-e52f-40b8-975b-09772ca73c6e/images/dacfea9f-1931-4494-82a4-2422cbf10a23.jpeg) Ravana had seven great warriors sons

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